Framed Man Freed after 19 Years
Barry Gibbs was a forgotten man convicted of a forgotten crime he said he never committed: the 1986 slaying of a prostitute in Brooklyn.
It took a more memorable case — the arrest earlier this year of a former detective on charges he doubled as a mob hit man — for authorities to finally listen to former postal worker Gibbs.
On Thursday, a judge threw out Gibbs’ 1988 murder conviction and released him based on new evidence that the same detective coerced a witness into identifying him as the killer.
“I knew I was innocent,” Gibbs, 57, said at a crowded news conference at his lawyers’ office. “I just had to make people believe.”
Source: CNN.
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